{"id":74795,"date":"2025-12-19T01:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74795"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:36:44","slug":"snow-showers-and-frigid-winds-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=74795","title":{"rendered":"Snow Showers and Frigid Winds Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. Wicked wind chills and snow showers are back in the Bluegrass state as Old Man Winter makes a quick appearance. If you&#8217;re a cold and snow lover for Christmas, this weather is not going to be sticking around.<\/p>\n<p>The winds with this system were every bit as wild as advertised with some gusts greater than 60mph&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74803\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2.png 1068w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Mesonet-2-768x331.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black ice is going to be a BIG issue this morning as temps drop into the mid and upper 20s. All that water from the overnight rains will freeze up and we may even have a touch of light snow accumulations on top. Stay alert if you&#8217;re driving this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Those snow showers and flurries will be more prominent in the central and eastern parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Temps today range from the middle 20s to low 30s for many with winds making it feel much colder. Single digit wind chills will be noted this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This arctic shot doesn&#8217;t hit and hold but gets pushed to the northeast of us on Saturday as southwest winds kick in once again. Temps head into the low 50s ahead of another cold front dropping in here early Sunday. That front doesn&#8217;t have any moisture with it, but brings seasonably cold air Sunday into early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Wind chills from 7am Sunday to 7am Monday look like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-40.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74797\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-40.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warmer air fights in late Monday and Tuesday leading to some showers going up. Some of those may hang around all the way through Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-2-16.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74799\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GFS-2-16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those showers are on the leading edge of a major warm up across the Plains with some of that shooting in here for Christmas. Bah Humbug.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the models are indicating some kind of trough returning to the east shortly thereafter but, as expected, they change from run to run on what to do. The latest EURO looks like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-31.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74805\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EURO-31.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another update will come your way later today, so check back. I will also have a few updates on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChrisBaileyWKYT\">Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" alt=\"Watches\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webpubcontent.gray.tv\/wkyt\/WEBWATCHES.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x-hv1.pivotalweather.com\/maps\/warnings\/nwshaz.us_ov.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make it a fantastic Friday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Friday, everyone. Wicked wind chills and snow showers are back in the Bluegrass state as Old Man Winter makes a quick appearance. If you&#8217;re a cold and snow lover for Christmas, this weather is not going to be sticking around. The winds with this system were every bit as wild as advertised with some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74806,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74795\/revisions\/74806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}